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SECTION: JURISPRUDENCE

1. Two main theories of legal right are:
(a) the Will Theory and the Interest Theory
(b) the Will Theory and the Concession Theory
(c) the Will Theory and the Realist Theory
(d) the Interest Theory and the Symbolist Theory.

2. ‘Who wrote the book ‘Elementiae Philosophial’
(a) Austin
(b) Hobbes
(c) Savigny
(d) Maine.

3. Who wrote the book ‘Das Rhect des Besitzes’?
(a) Puchta
(b) Maine
(c) Hegel
(d) Savigny.

4. According to whom, possession is protected because every act of violence is unlawful:
(a) Rousseau
(b) Holland
(c) Kelsen
(d) Savigny.

5. Who defined law as ‘the form of the guarantee of the conditions of life of society assured by State’s power of constraint’?
(a) Ihering
(b) Ehrlich
(c) Pound
(d) Duguit.

6. Who described ownership as ‘a right — indefinite in point of user — unrestricted in point of disposition — and unlimited in point of duration — over a determinate thing’?
(a) Renner
(b) Austin
(c) Ihering
(d) Salmond.

7. Rights which came into being after the violation of a right are:
(a) no rights
(b) sanctioning rights
(c) duties
(d) primary rights.

8. Who said that ‘the essence of legal right seems to me to be not legally guaranteed power by itself, nor legally protected interest by itself, but the legally guaranteed power to realize an interest’?
(a) Allen
(b) Salmond
(c) Hegel
(d) Paton.

9. Who said that protection to possession stands on the same grounds as protection against injuria?
(a) Duguit
(b) Holland
(c) Windscheid
(d) Austin.

10. In precedents, rules and principles are laid down by:
(a) predictive method
(b) constructive method
(c) inductive method
(d) deductive method.

11. Who wrote the book ‘De la Republique’?
(a) Machiavelli
(b) Bentham
(c) Bodin
(d) Hobbes.

12. Which school of thought opined that customs originate from common consciousness of the people?
(a) Sociological school
(b) Natural Law school
(c) Historical school
(d) Analytical school.

13. Pound defines law as:
(a) a social institution to satisfy social wants
(b) a positive morality
(c) the de psychologized command
(d) a social fact.

14. Who said that Law is ‘the highest reason implanted in nature’?
(a) Hart
(b) Cicero
(c) Salmond
(d) Maitland.

15. Who defined ownership as ‘a plenary control over an object’?
(a) Holland
(b) Ihering
(c) Salmond
(d) Savigny.

16. Who defined law as ‘a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being by an intelligent being having power over him’?
(a) Kelsen
(b) Austin
(c) Salmond
(d) Jerome Frank.

17. Who divided jurisprudence into ‘general’ and ‘particular’ jurisprudence?
(a) Puchta
(b) Holland
(c) Austin
(d) Locke.

18. According to Hohfeld, the Correlative of Power is:
(a) Liability
(b) Disability
(c) Immunity
(d) No right.

19. Hugo stated that:
(a) law is the command of the sovereign
(b) the essence of law is its acceptance, regulations and observance by the people
(c) laws are the creation of climate, local situations, accident or imposture
(d) law is not universal in nature.

20. Who explained customs as ‘one of the main triangles of the laws of England’?
(a) Coke
(b) Salmond
(c) Dicey
(d) Blackstone.

21. Who is the founder of the Analytical School?
(a) Bentham
(b) Austin
(c) Allen
(d) Salmond.

22. Who supported the absolute power of the sovereign on utilitarian grounds?
(a) Bentham
(b) Austin
(c) Dicey
(d) Hobbes.

23. Who wrote the essay ‘Vom Beruf in 1814?
(a) Thibaut
(b) Savigny
(c) Hegel
(d) Puchta.

24. An essay entitled ‘On the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence’ was written with which, in the words of Ihering, a new jurisprudence was born. Who was the author of this essay?
(a) Salmond
(b) Fuller
(c) Savigny
(d) Puchta.

25. Who is the exponent of ‘Volksgeist’ theory?
(a) Savigny
(b) Thibant
(c) Holmes
(d) Roscoe Pound.

26. Which theory of personality laid down that only human beings have personality. Juristic persons are no persons at all?
(a) Realitst theory
(b) Fiction theory
(c) Concession theory
(d) Purpose theory.

27. Duguit propounded the concept of:
(a) Volkgeist
(b) Social engineering
(c) Utilitarianism
(d) Social solidarity.

28. According to whom, ‘state is a community of persons permanently occupying a definite territory, legally independent of external control and possessing an organized government which creates and administers law over all persons and groups within its jurisdiction. Abstractly considered, the state is juristic entity or person, concretely considered, it is the community, the territory which it occupies and the govern mental organization through which it wills & acts’?
(a) Gettell
(b) Holland
(c) Salmond
(d) Austin.

29. ‘It is difficult to see what the pure theory of law can contribute to a system which it assumes to be law, but which it derives from a basic norm which it cannot find’.
This was commented on Kelson’s theory of Grundnorm by:
(a) Hart
(b) Austin
(c) Friedman
(d) Stone.

30. Who said that ‘the law is not to be deduced from the rule but the rule from the law’?
(a) Bentham
(b) Austin
(c) Paulus
(d) Hobbes.

31. Who classified sources of law into binding and persuasive sources?
(a) Allen
(b) Salmond
(c) Keeton
(d) Duguit.

32. Who classified sources of law into formal and material sources?
(a) Austin
(b) Keeton
(c) Allen
(d) Salmond.

33. Who defined jurisprudence as ‘the scientific synthesis of the essential principles of law’?
(a) Allen
(b) Salmond
(c) Austin
(d) Bentham.

34. ‘Self-interest causes a conflict between individual will and general will’. Who expressed this opinion?
(a) Austin
(b) Puchta
(c) Savigny
(d) Maine.

35. Who said that ‘international law is not law but it is only a positive morality’?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Kant
(c) Salmond
(d) Austin.

36. Who said that there can be no concept of sovereignty as distinct and separate from and above the law?
(a) Kelsen
(b) Dicey
(c) Hart
(d) Bodin.

37. Who said that State is the result of a natural instinct in man?
(a) Kant
(b) Grotius
(c) Aristotle
(d) Hobbes.

38. Factum valet’ means an act:
(a) Which in an contravention of precedents
(b) Which is in contravention of some moral injunction, if accomplished in fact, should be considered valid.
(c) An act done in contravention of Law
(d) Which is in contravention of some legal injunction, if accomplished in fact, should be considered valid.

39. Who said that custom is per se law?
(a) Puchta
(b) Savigny
(c) Coke
(d) Hart.

40. Who said that in possession there is manifestation of individual will?
(a) Hegel
(b) Savigny
(c) Rousseau
(d) Kant.

41. ‘A precept or rule of action imposed upon men by some authority which enforces obedience to it’ is:
(a) imperative law
(b) natural law
(c) physical law
(d) conventional law.

42. Who said that State is absolute and is an end in itself?
(a) Austin
(b) Hobbes
(c) Machiavelli
(d) Bodin.

43. Who stated ‘law grows with a nation, increases with it and dies at its dissolution and is a characteristic of it’?
(a) Maine
(b) Gray
(c) Holmes
(d) Savigny.

44. Who stated that ‘no one has any other right than always to do his duty’?
(a) Duguit
(b) Austin
(c) Salmond
(d) Holland.

45. Who wrote the book ‘Law of the Constitution’?
(a) Dicey
(b) Salmond
(c) Maitland
(d) Gray.

46. ‘Ratio legis’ means:
(a) operation of the statute
(b) the true intention of the statute
(c) applicability of the statute
(d) passing observation of the statute.

47. Who defined State as ‘an association of human beings generally occupying a territory for the attainment of internal order and external security’?
(a) Rousseau
(b) Holland
(c) Salmond
(d) Gettell.

48. Who gave sociological approach to sovereignty?
(a) Bodin
(b) Jethro Brown
(c) Holland
(d) Austin.

49. Law is defined or ‘the standard of what is just and unjust’ by:
(a) Ulpian
(b) Justinian’s Digest
(c) Salmond
(d) Cicero.

50. What is the Jural opposite of Immunity?
(a) Privilege
(b) No right
(c) Liability
(d) Disability.

Section 3 – Other Law Areas is continued in Page 3

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